Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.